My .22 Was Drafted!

[TRAP55]

Well, kinda.
With the disaster at Dunkirk in WWII, the Brits had a sudden awakening that the population was unarmed, and a German invasion was a very real possibility. Didn't learn much did they?
The US stepped up with the Lend/Lease program to help Britain arm it's troops. The NRA stepped up to arm it's citizens! They put out a call to Americans to send private firearms to England for Home Guard Units. Unfortunately, many of the rifles, pistols, and shotguns that were sent, never returned, being destroyed at the end of the war.
Some however, were returned to their owners, many with letters of gratitude from the people that used them. My Remington 341P was one of those rifles. Wish I had the letter if it came back with one.
I've got some gun friends in the UK, that I'm going to ask if they can find any records on these guns. The brown Remington varnish is coming off at the moment for a fresh facelift.

[Dutch3]

Very cool.

[CSACANNONEER]

I'm curious. How do you know this? Is it marked in some way?

[justin4fun]

I have seen brit proofs on it. that doesn't prove anything except it has been there.

Now you really wont get rid of that will you TRAP. Terry said it should be mine.

[Enfield47]

The brown Remington varnish is coming off at the moment for a fresh facelift.

So do you have the fumes of lacquer thinner wafting about?

[M1NM]

I wonder who is going to loan us guns when the Chinese invade?

[TRAP55]

I'm curious. How do you know this? Is it marked in some way?

Derp, forgot the pics. Fixed now.

[stevied]

That's pretty cool! I have a similar rifle; 513t with the red field rear sight. That thing is a tack driver.

[hermosabeach]

Why the dupe?

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=897210

[TRAP55]

So do you have the fumes of lacquer thinner wafting about?

Not yet, start on it tomorrow. Going to do a pictorial "how to" on this stock.
Notice Justin is still whining, cause I was quicker with the cash?
Would have already been mine 3 yrs ago at Reno, but my buddy Terry had his cash in hand, and I was still fumbling with my wallet!
Probably can't see it in the pic, but the barrel letter code dates it at Oct of 1940, 3 months before they ended the production of the 341P.

[TRAP55]

Why the dupe?

http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/s...d.php?t=897210

Brain fart, was on the rimfire forum, and meant to post it here.

[TRAP55]

That's pretty cool! I have a similar rifle; 513t with the red field rear sight. That thing is a tack driver.

stevied, T's are addictive as Mosins, I've got three of em now. Trying to decide which one I'm going to sell to Justin, he nags worse than my wife. But he can nag all he wants, he ain't gettin that 341P.

[SanPedroShooter]

I have a Remington 34 too.

It was my grandfathers. Its a low serial, its marked 'patent pending' on it. My grandfather, father, and myself have been shooting it for three generations.

I'll never sell it. It started my love for a tube mag

[SanPedroShooter]

[TRAP55]

Sweet! Where did you find that? Ties right in with what I was reading today! There was a group of Americans living in Britain that got this fired up.